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Tristan van Doormaal, a neurosurgeon at UMC Utrecht in the Netherlands, details how augmented reality and virtual reality can help patients understand their condition better and train residents in different approaches to surgery.

Universal Health Services runs more than 15,000 tests per day to ensure that patient-critical applications and records are available for physicians and clinicians.

Forty-nine percent of surveyed physicians who had remained independent since 2011 attested to meaningful use of EHRs.

More than two dozen organizations will get money from HRSA's new Rural Residency Planning and Development Program grants.

And that's because too many board members don't have the right level of IT and security expertise, a new Black Book study suggests.

As part of the deal, which involves nonclinical technologies, about 540 health system staff will become Optum employees.

Competition, an aging workforce, an outdated image contribute to staffing shortages for the health insurance industry.

The list of healthcare jobs the AHIMA Foundation program can help fill and upskill is long and varied, including clinical documentation improvement specialists, data analysts, medical and clinical lab techs, privacy and security officers and more.

To foster a culture where patient experience is valued and prioritized, hospitals and health systems must first improve the experience for caregivers, says Sue Murphy, chief experience officer at UChicago Medicine.

Almost every informatics manager you speak to will tell you about problems attracting, recruiting and retaining high quality informatics staff. We also know the problem is likely to get worse rather than better, as greater numbers and more highly skilled and specialist staff are needed in the future.